Most of what you say here is right, Arnold @schwarzenegger.bsky.social but your conclusion is wrong. You know this is a transparent, temporary, redistricting to try to control the Trump administration by overturning the REP majority in the House. Vote YES on #Prop50.
Funny use of "at" to describe a professor emeritus. Martinis left @ucsb.bsky.social in 2014 to work at Google, and then left Google for Silicon Quantum Computing in Australia in 2020. Now he's at QoLab.
Allen, Trump’s Imperfect Compact Is a Perfect Opportunity. www.chronicle.com/article/trum... "an opening to forge a national coalition of higher-education institutions to secure a good, mission-aligned agreement with the federal government"
Hartocollis: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u... “When you have been trying to get into a school like this—any school, not just @harvard.edu—students generally do a lot of extracurriculars their entire life. It only makes sense that they’ll continue doing that.” So change admission policies!
@jonathanbchait.bsky.social, DEMs Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... “This…commercial, w/its potent tagline—“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you”—moved viewers by an estimated 2.7 points, a shift > Trump’s margin of victory in most swing states.”
Finished setting up a Karl Menger formulation of #Shutdown2025 in my Intro to Mathematical Modeling lecture @ucsdphysci.bsky.social today. Easy to see why parties are incompatible. Next … how impasse may be resolved.
Before my lecture today @ucsandiego.bsky.social I noticed one of the students reading a book. Surprised and pleased, I asked him what he was reading … _Moby Dick_, and not for a class, just for fun! The kids are alright.
John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie... “If you are a serious intellectual, you should not be comfortable on the left-right spectrum. The right is so stupid it’s not even worth discussing. But the left is evil.”
Bender, Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... "demands...free tuition to students studying math, biology, or other 'hard sciences' if endowment > $2M/undergrad" Study math for free @mit.edu or Princeton!
“To some, Mr. Hegseth’s speech was poorly matched to his audience of senior officers who in most cases are responsible for complex military operations”
To SOME? That phrase implies that some others thought the speech was *well-matched*. Not possible.
